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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2008-05-30 16:09:45 -0400
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2008-05-30 01:09:46 -0400
commitb4f68be6c5d507afdcd74f5be3df0b1209cda503 (patch)
tree85c0771058ff08c5dab5eedbf3395959dbafc878 /include
parent7757f09c70af87887dfc195e6d6ddd54f5cc7c39 (diff)
virtio: force callback on empty.
virtio allows drivers to suppress callbacks (ie. interrupts) for efficiency (no locking, it's just an optimization). There's a similar mechanism for the host to suppress notifications coming from the guest: in that case, we ignore the suppression if the ring is completely full. It turns out that life is simpler if the host similarly ignores callback suppression when the ring is completely empty: the network driver wants to free up old packets in a timely manner, and otherwise has to use a timer to poll. We have to remove the code which ignores interrupts when the driver has disabled them (again, it had no locking and hence was unreliable anyway). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/virtio_config.h4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/virtio_config.h b/include/linux/virtio_config.h
index 71d6c102497e..f364bbf63c34 100644
--- a/include/linux/virtio_config.h
+++ b/include/linux/virtio_config.h
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@
15/* We've given up on this device. */ 15/* We've given up on this device. */
16#define VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_FAILED 0x80 16#define VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_FAILED 0x80
17 17
18/* Do we get callbacks when the ring is completely used, even if we've
19 * suppressed them? */
20#define VIRTIO_F_NOTIFY_ON_EMPTY 24
21
18#ifdef __KERNEL__ 22#ifdef __KERNEL__
19#include <linux/virtio.h> 23#include <linux/virtio.h>
20 24